to the all night vigil for the 2000th Christmas in Bethlehem (December 24, 1999), which led to the "Mary of Nazareth" Project. Edmond died on Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, of a heart attack, while vacationing in [...] (near Paris). He had been filled with love for God and a contagious enthusiasm for the Blessed Virgin Mary since his radical conversion one morning in April 1984 in Rome, one of the tens of thousands, invited [...] feeling almost indifferent to the event, a few words of Cardinal Gantin's sermon at the Basilica of St Mary Major pierced his heart - and he rushed to the confessional - of which he came out "thirsty for God
by the hands of Mary. The retreat centers developed in spite of the lack of means. Exhausted, Therese Couderc fell ill and had to go away to rest. On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, renewing the gesture [...] the Church in France was beginning to take on new life after the disarray of the Revolution. When Marie Victoire Couderc (Saint Therese Couderc) was a young woman, her father brought her home from school [...] was born. One of the missionaries was an energetic and zealous diocesan priest named Stephen Terme. Marie Victoire was 20 years old and had a great desire to consecrate herself to God. She confided in Father
from the 3rd and 4th centuries, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. At the end of the 5th century, the Hispanic liturgy began to exalt Mary as the new Eve, the Mother of God and our Mother, the Mediatrix [...] According to the tradition that the apostle St. James, while in Spain, had a vision of the Virgin Mary on top of a column (El Pilar shrine, in Zaragoza, Aragon), Spain has been a Marian land since the [...] Santiago. According to Christian accounts, he was born around 5 B.C. in Galilee, the son of Zebedee and Mary Salome, and was the older brother of John, also an apostle. James was present in all the most important
naturalized citizen, I adopted the patroness of the U.S., the Immaculate Conception, as my go-to image of Mary. Our Lady of Guadalupe, too, became a powerful influence as patroness of the Americas, encompassing [...] all my cultural roots, both North and South. Although I now had many titles with which to relate to Mary, Our Lady of Charity continued to tug at my heart. Although she is often depicted floating above a [...] rocked in the uncertain seas as a storm threatened their lives. They called out to the Blessed Virgin Mary to keep them safe, and suddenly the storm calmed and a little statue strapped to a board appeared
place the same year as Fatima’s “Miracle of the Sun,” and the Virgin Mary specifically requested that the pope consecrate Russia to Mary, in union with the bishops of the world. In Fatima’s museum, there [...] several supernatural encounters that would take place over the course of 1916 and 1917. When the Virgin Mary appeared to Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco on May 13, 1917, she requested, “Say the Rosary every day [...] and secrets of Fatima continued to unfold after WWI until the fall of Communism in 1989. The Virgin Mary entered into the bloodiest century in human history with a message of peace and prayer. In many ways
"Suspended Church" of the Virgin Mary in Old Cairo is an icon, hanging on the northern wall of the courtyard, representing Abraam, Saint Simon the Tanner and the Virgin Mary. It is said to be the copy of [...] churches were conferred the honor of housing his relics: the Church of Saint Mary in Babylon El-Darag, the Suspended Church of Saint Mary, and the Church of Saint Simon the Tanner in Mokattam. [...] in Al-Habach in Old Cairo. On August 4, 1991, during the renovation of the ancient Church of Saint Mary in Babylon El-Darag, the skeletal remains of a man in his fifties were discovered. Not far from that
the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to
and next to her, Saint Joseph. All creatures are sanctified as a continuation of the Incarnation. Mary and Joseph also received the redeeming effects of the Incarnation; but God initially intended them [...] the very realization of the Incarnation. Of course, we all owe God for Jesus, but after God, we owe Mary and Joseph.
January 22 – Our Lady of Ceignac (France, 1516) Minister of Goodness Mary is the minister of God in the department of goodness. She does not condemn and she does not tear one apart. Instead she revives [...] revives and vivifies all that is presented to her. A mother's love has limits, hers does not. Go to Mary. Go to that incomparable Mother, and believe that she will never make any difference between you and her
the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to
